treebornfrog

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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   The irony of this article is that current customers like myself who read this news are now looking at alternatives. I spend roughly $120/m with DO and have done for the last 2 years. I have a majority 5 usd droplets and 1 20 usd drople
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   Sucks. Hope it's not financial. I run a bunch of projects on DO, much prefer it over AWS. It's easier to use and straight to the point.
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   Any proof?
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   This times a thousand. Im constantly torn between 'new highs for years' vs 'but we had 2 bubbles see how those went?'
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   There should be more sites like this that index the nonsense these mainstream publications report.
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   I used to know a guy back in 2014 who's entire business model was based on ad arbitrage. 1) buy clicks on native ad networks 2) send user to a gallery style page (press next to see another celeb without makeup) 3) load all pages with
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   This. And in addition they no longer show average position metric (1) which increases barrier to entry, they now only show impression share. (1) https://www.practicalecommerce.com/say-goodbye-to-average-po...
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   Then the marketing person lacks fundamental understanding of the platform. Also, how do you spend so much cash and ignore the stats for so long that you have to change the target demographic for the app?
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   by treebornfrog 7y ago

   HN is a bubble. I've been running PPC ads for highly targeted keywords for the last 5 years which have generated a ridiculous return. In general ppc is steady and reliable once you have you're keywords and ads running for a while
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    I'm no programmer but I've used varnish along with nginx, seems to work well.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Couldn't articulate it better.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    This seems very similar to yieldify.com
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    100% this. You can have the best castle, but if no-one visits, what use is it? I've met too many programmers with great ideas and execution, but have failed with marketing/sales because they think it's all fluff. Communicatio
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    I also did this, quantum is leaps and bounds ahead of chrome (no pun intended) in terms of being clean and feeling more solid. Also not a RAM hog.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    This looks like a fast acquisition target.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Now we have Facebook and Netflix for passive consumption.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    The idea here isn't if one should consume mainstream news and make decisions on what is relevant. 99% is irrelevant Decision fatigue Generally crap stuff Unhealthy Chips away on your perspective Better to vet individual publications an
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Spot on. Anything that will impact your life will be filtered through.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    You can 'get away' for as long as you like. I stopped consuming news years ago. The only way it reaches my conscious is if: 1) friends or family mention something (or anyone else within my social circle). Fair game. This helps me
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    I don't see how this is relevant. Even if it was an ab test, we know that Google is looking to remove url structures from search results.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    This is spot on, I graduated with a degree in genetics and cannot articulate this any better. Biology is very hard, it's more about discovery and iteration and a lot more deeper than tech. Very few understand this, so it's been am
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    A good rule of thumb to live by indeed.
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Inbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Couldn't agree with you more. I get marketing SMS with pictures from my network provider about the new iPhone etc. Its terrible.
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    Uber launches Uber works to connect workers with businesses(works.co)

    2 points by treebornfrog 7y ago|0 comments
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    by treebornfrog 7y ago

    Makes life easier for you personally after an exit / liquidity event. Not related to funding of a company, that's a whole different ball game.